Being President gives the Doctor access to the Matrix, which contains all the knowledge of the Time Lords. He balances it on K-9's ears and connects it to his TARDIS.

Leela and a really overqualified Time Lady named Rodan roam about in the wilderness outside, where they meet a group of Shobogans, barbarian Gallifreyans (not part of the Time Lord houses) who are really quite bad at being barbarians.

Naturally, there are wheels within wheels, and the Vardan menace is defeated — with two episodes left in the season. Wait... the cheers have stopped. What the... Uh oh, Sontarans! Cue a wild goose chase inside an abandoned hospital the TARDIS, which gives us quite an extensive view of the interior, its gardens (giant carnivorous plants and everything) as well as its fabled swimming pool.

Leela, meanwhile, feels right at home with the barbarians and assembles them into a Badass Army. As their new Lady of War, she organizes a charge of the Citadel and infiltrates the Capitol to help out the Doctor. He uses forbidden technology to destroy the Sontarans, wiping his memory of events — and of the Matrix — in the process. Leela suddenly decides she's fallen in love with Chancellery Guard Andred whom she's just met, and remains on Gallifrey with K-9 to go star in her own spinoff.

The Doctor bids a sorrowful farewell to Leela and K-9 and returns to the TARDIS. He then pulls out a large box from the storage room marked "K-9 Mk II" and starts to grin at the camera.

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Stor: I am Commander Stor, of the Sontaran Special Space Service. Doctor: The SSSS. Isn't that carrying alliteration a little far?

Alien Non-Interference Clause: Rodan monitors spaceships and casually remarks she sees a battleship probably about to destroy a planet. When Leela asks her to attack the ship, she's appalled at the thought of interfering.

Aside Glance: The Doctor looks a few times straight into the camera when talking to himself. Adred does it once too, then looks embarrassed for having done so.

Big Electric Switch: There are several in the Time Lord citadel's security control room (which, despite being technically advanced, is whimsically designed to look old-fashioned nearly to the point of steampunk).

Bling of War: As part of his coronation as Lord President, the Doctor adorned himself with the giant gold Sash of Rassilon and its accompanying scepter.

Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Doctor breaks it two times in the story, saying 'Even the sonic screwdriver won't get me out of this one.' in one scene, and then grinning at the camera at the end.

The Chessmaster: The Fourth Doctor, funnily enough. You can see early signs of the Seventh Doctor here.

Deadly Decadent Court: After the Crystal Spires and Togas of the first stories, and the pompous but weak depiction of "The Deadly Assassin", this story's powerful but deeply corrupt and self-serving portrayal of the Time Lords became the pattern for most later stories featuring them en masse, both in the TV show and other media. Lampshaded by the Doctor:

Doctor: I don't know what they teach you at the Academy these days, but if you can't pull off a simple palace revolution, what can you pull off?

Forgot About His Powers: Just like in "The Deadly Assassin", many Time Lords seem to forget they have the ability to regenerate. Other media would eventually come up with the explanation that there's Time Lord weapons that are effective at killing without regeneration. While it won't explain away the guards who were shot by the primitive arrows, perhaps they were just Gallifreyans and not full on Time Lords?

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Key of Rassilon, which every President since time immemorial has been charged to seek, has been in the office of the Chancellor all along; the Chancellor has a secret trust to keep it hidden so that no President has all Rassilon's powerful artifacts at once. Needle in a Stack of Needles is hinted at — the Chancellor has an enormous collection of keys needed to do his job — then subverted: the true Key is the one stuck in the keyhole of his desk drawer.

Human Aliens: What the Vardans turn out to be. Somewhat lampshaded when the Doctor acknowledges that this is disappointing.

I Choose to Stay: Leela decides to stay on Gallifrey to be with Andred. For some reason.

My Master, Right or Wrong: Leela refuses to believe the Doctor has really gone to the side of evil. The Castellan is a more villainous example.

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: The Doctor knowingly collaborates with the Vardan invasion of Gallifrey, confident that he can defeat them. Then it turns out that they were being backed by the Sontarans.

Not Himself: The Doctor is initiated as Lord President of Gallifrey and begins acting very cold and megalomaniacal, contrary to his usual jolly and playful personality.

Not Now, Kiddo: The Sontarans attempt to locate the Doctor; the Castellan attempts to tell their Commander where he is, but each time the Commander reacts angrily to being interrupted, and doesn't let him speak. When he finally succeeds in conveying the information, the Commander of course demands to know why he didn't say so sooner.

Oh, Crap!: After four episodes, the Vardans have been expelled from Gallifrey through copious amounts of mind-trickery; the Doctor, supremely smug with his success, addresses the cheering crowd with a victory speech. Puzzled at why the cheering abruptly stops, he turns around... and standing behind him is a Sontaran battle squad, who have been playing the Vardans for patsies, and have taken advantage of the weakened Gallifrey defences to stroll in and claim the place for themselves. Tom Baker's boggle-eyes were MADE for moments like this.

Panty Shot: During the outside scenes, Leela's skirt is blown up. This ended up not being Fanservice - Leela's knickers turned out to be Bridget Jones' big-girl issue, in the same khaki-brown as her skirt.

Scooby-Dooby Doors: Briefly happens when the Doctor, Leela, Andred and Borusa are eluding the Sontarans, as they split up among doors on either side of a corridor and immediately wind up in the same room. Justified by how screwy the TARDIS's internal geography has already shown itself to be.

Xanatos Speed Chess: The Doctor succeeds in spite of learning the people he was foiling were only the façcade. It's implied that the Doctor knew they weren't the Big Bad the entire time, and only dealt with them in the first place solely so that they would reveal who or what the real threat actually was. The first half of the story actually goes exactly according to the Doctor's original plan.

Your Princess Is in Another Castle: The Part 4 cliffhanger: the Doctor thinks he's won by defeating the Vardans, only to find that the Sontarans were actually the ones behind the invasion.

Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: Given that the Doctor is relatively younger than the senior Time Lords of the story, he assures Borusa that his faciliating the invasion of Gallifrey is not this.

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